The movie tells the story of Ruan Lingyu's life, portrayed by Maggie Cheung, focusing on her final film "New Woman," and while I wasn’t entirely taken with its occasionally muddled approach, it’s undeniably beautiful to look at. She was a celebrated star in China’s silent film era of the 1930s who lived intensely and ultimately became victimized by political forces increasingly shaped by the Kuomintang. Her involveme…